Creighton U.'s dental school recruits and trains American Indian students to meet a desperate need for dental care on tribal reservations.

By Katherine Mangan

Growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota, Tracy
Charging Crow recalls the eureka moment when she zeroed in on her
chosen career.

She was a sophomore in high school, attending a health-care
retreat sponsored by Creighton University, when a dental student
encouraged her to try her hand at preparing a practice tooth for a
filling. "I was looking for my niche, and the minute I drilled into
that tooth, I knew I had found it," says the 26-year-old member of
the Lakota Sioux